The Ris'tretto café at the top end of Barbadoes Street (near Edgeware Road, opposite St Albans Park) has been an early and proud Christchurch champion of the glowing global movement / initiative of suspended coffee. Suspended coffee began as a good-will tradition in Naples (where by some accounts, it has been occurring for over a hundred years), before more recently becoming a popular movement throughout the rest of Italy, and subsequently (and increasingly) all over the world.
Customers who wish to participate/donate and put a bit of kindness into their day simply pay for two coffees – one for themselves, and another which is held “suspended” for anyone that comes in and asks for one, allowing Ris'tretto to provide a free of coffee to someone who deserves a pick me up. It's simple initiative to provide a coffee for someone in need or who can’t easily afford the little luxury of...